The Wild Flower Key
How to Identify Wild Plants, Trees and Shrubs in Britain and Ireland
$62.06
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2006
Summary
The definitive guide to wild flowers as used by horticultural colleges
This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its combination of meticulous illustrations and the use of keys to aid recognition. For this new edition the Latin names have been revised in accordance with the current classification system. It is now published as the ideal book for the serious student of British and north-west European wild …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780723251750 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0723251754 |
| Author: | Francis Rose |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Imprint: | Warne |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 871g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 135mm x 32mm |
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About The Author
Francis Rose
Dr Francis Rose, MBE
Dr Rose is one of our best-known botanists, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the lichen and bryophyte flora as well as of flowering plants, and of plant ecology and biogeography. His career as a botanist began at the age of six, learning to identify plants on country walks. After graduating in botany from London University, he spent most of his working life teaching there until retirement in 1981. This remains his most popular book, which took over 20 years to write and represents a lifetime’s experience of plant identification.
Clare O’Reilly
Clare O’Reilly (previously Coleman) is a freelance botanist and writer who left her career as an environmental lawyer in order to revise this book. She recently gained an MSc in Plant Taxonomy but was a self-taught amateur botanist for many years. Her passion for plants began after winning a wild flower-in-a-vase competition, aged seven. Clare teaches beginners courses on plant identification and this experience, coupled with Dr Rose’s expertise in the original text, enables this revised edition to be even more useful for those new to field botany.
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